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Monday, December 11, 2017

AI is evolving from its roots

When most hear about
AI in the news, tech blog or online video, your hearing about the
next evolution of AI not its beginning. AI has been around for a
while its just finding its usefulness in business.

The beginning of AI
was in video games before things became massively multi-player. In
old school games it was the villain you fought against. In games like
Pacman the villains were just random patterns. As gaming evolved to
the next level those villains became aware of you and what you do.
Now its trying to make the game harder. The AI in those days where
clumsy at best and usually people found out how to beat them. So the
game AI had to become better.

As programming
languages got better so did the AI. Now the AI has more complexity
and is thinking less in patterns and more in random adjustments to
the player. It never got to the place where you would think this is
another player because the advent of Massively Multi-player games
took care of that.

Then lately in the
mist of all the cyber attacks AI has been brought into the security
space. Doing the same thing it did in the game space. Predicting the
moves of an attacker and preventing them from compromising and system
or network. Old virus protection models had become too predictable
and had holes that attackers could bypass. So now AI is useful for
that.

Also with all this
data floating around. People would be bogged down forever trying to
manage it. In comes AI. The logic of AI can, collect, organize and
process data much faster than a human can. So big data had become one
of the big things recently because of the advent of AI to help manage
it.

So AI was something
we use to fight but now its our friend helping use improve processes.
Understand the evolution and you understand where its going and where
it can assist in our lives.